Live Audiophile Roundtable: BUDGET audiophile quality album PICKS (PART 2) that will blow your mind!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Please join your host Steve Westman as he welcomes the Roundtable gang. The gang will blow your mind with incredible sounding audiophile quality sounding album picks for anyone on a budget or wants to save money Part 2. So EVERYONE!!!
With every Rhino Hi-Fi announcement, I’m always hoping that it’s a Smiths box set - it’s *such* a no-brainer to me so I’m surprised that it wasn’t one of the first Hi-Fi releases. I understand that they wanted to start out by not doing titles that have been “done to death,” but The Smiths haven’t.
Sure, their records have been kept in print over the decades, but none of them have ever been given full-on “audiophile” releases, where you’ve got a highly skilled, well respected and well-known mastering engineer who sits down and really puts effort into making the music sound the best that it could possibly sound on vinyl.
Their first album in particular has kinda always sounded like sh*t so there could really be a revelation with that one. Plus I’d love an American cut that actually includes “This Charming Man” in the track list!
Great show, enjoy these discussions. Count me among those that think Andrew, Nathan and Josh really add to the group. Thanks all!
Thanks Patrick. Yes they are a great addition.
Joe Jackson's Night & Day, Tina Turner Private Dancer (Jacksonville!), & Robert Cray Strong Persuader are three amazing sounding cheap heat picks. Great roundtable!
Thank you. Good picks.
Thanks for the video keeps me inspired when Peaches records closed in Milwaukee the last 2 days everything was 49 cents yep I bought 20 crates it was awesome when 1812 over at your clothes everything was three dollars all the Imports all the psych records it was awesome have a great day when radio doctors closed in Milwaukee they were in business over 80 years they threw all the records in the dumpster me and my girlfriend were in the dumpster yep it was awesomeThose were the good old days
Thanks for watching. Was fun. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, Bro U frigg'n ROCK mate! 👍 That's what I'm talk'n about! 😁
Alright… now I know why one of my customers asked if I had any Merciful Fate today, LOL.
Grateful Dead the wall of sound I got to experience it the best sounding Stereo in the world ever just saying mind blowing
“I’m not optimistic.” That should be on Patrick’s tombstone.
Hey, let's not rush the ol' Bugger... He still has some life in him yet 😁 (actually, I agree with him more than anyone else...)
I really like that people are also showing cds, Blu-ray Audio etc because a good recording is a good recording regardless of format.
EXCELLENT PICKS. caught this one later🙏
Steve love the round tables ❤️Bruce “co-burn” got 2 CDs? Great Canadian singer songwriter
So good. Thanks for watching Bruce "Co-burn" is a Canadian legend.
Like how you rotate the panel....where is the guy from the Washington Post??? Best guest ever....always laugh my arse off listening to his stories and vinyl observations....get him back for a future show 💯🙏
Thank you. He'll be back at some point soon.
I'd like to know where Andrew is finding a 1979 UK copy of Piper
I have several OG copies of Candy-O which sound great, as well as the 2017 Elektra reissue with bonus disc, which sounds even better, in most ways, but I’ve got so many hundreds of listens invested in the OG, that the reissue sounds a little off, but I can’t exactly tell you why. I’ll probably get the new Rhino HiFi, if for no other reason but curiosity.
*PLEASE* let us know what you think of it, and maybe tell us what you are listening on, if you would please 😊
Good on you George! Morrison Hotel is my favorite Doors record as well.
So much Australia and Canada. Lucky we have my favourite Anglophile Mazzy representing the UK 😊
P.S. lovely show
Mazzy, nice Randy Newman Political Science reference about the kangaroos. 👍😂✌️
I have ordered the Nina Simone CD set…it was a set I had considered previously so hearing it sounds great was the clincher. Good to hear CD recommendations as I buy both formats.
Just thought I should mention that the Tompkins Square label is releasing a tribute to Bruce Cockburn featuring Bill Callahan amongst others.
Very cool. Thank you.
I also have the Kansas Leftoverture CBS 1/2 speed and it is one of the good ones! BTW, forget the MFSL 1-Step of Abraxas, just get the CBS 1/2 speed, it sounds bloody amazing!
Love my CBS 1/2 speeds.
@@stevewestman7774 Yessir!
Agreed with Nathan' jazz recs. However, Oh Baby is awesome. Patton's organ playing and sound, I like better than any other jazz album or performer.
Patrick's right, hand down! Sorry... You can equivocate all about how $60 now was only $9 then, but expecting people just easily to toss out $60 TODAY with all the super inflated prices of everything else and to think it is 'Budget' is just not true. My parents used to go to L.A from here in the San Diego area, spend an entire week there in a motel, see a movie every day, have lunch and dinner every day and drive back, all for $100. That is going back a tad further probably to about 1965 or so, but still, $60 is *NOT* 'budget' for 'NORMAL' people these days, sorry... And, like I said before, they had racks of Mobile Fidelity records back then that I bought, they were around $20 or so.
Patrick, keep it real Bro! 👍
In 1974 single albums were $3.99.
Yep... I'm with Patrick on this one. I don't agree at all with this $60 being a 'budget' price whatsoever... For all these guys who apparently have LOTS of disposable income, great, but not for the average person trying just to reasonably keep up with normal things. Like I posted above, a few years after 1974, stores in my area north of San Diego, like Licorice Pizza, Sam Goody's, and The Wherehouse had racks of Mobile Fidelity records for around $20 at the time. I know, I bought quite a few of them. And, I can tell you since I was buying records at that time, coming up with the $20 for a MFSL pressing was a *HELL* of a lot easier than coming up with $60 now, sorry... I don't care what the 'inflation' numbers say.
I quit watching this video to listen to Ambrosia, liked it then went on discogs only to find they're not that cheap afterall...
They are very underrated.
That’s a very recent phenomenon, most likely because of these videos/podcasts.
@@TheAgeOfAnalog No, not at all, notice my post above/below 😊
Framer really triggered everybody. But I think his point was legit. Marquee sounded like it did for a reason, based on who and what was involved..He never said the new one sounded but that it definitely was a different take on it
He may be correct, but was entirely selective rationale. Every reissue that Fremer hates or more appropriately that he says “sucks”, how does he know that the band didn’t want it to sound that way? Fremer is a smart guy who loves music and high quality audio gear, but he’s inherently contrarian and it’s totally exhausting.
At the same time, many reviewers are often accused of not being critical enough of releases/equipment. Fremer was critical in this case and had the courage to speak his mind, but that’s not good either now. This is about a matter that is fairly subjective. It’s ok to disagree with his take, but he is also entitled to his opinion as well. To accuse him of being unnecessarily a contrarian just for the sake of being a contrarian is not a valid argument. You simply disagree with his take, and that’s fine. I find Fremer to be exasperating on occasion as well, but let’s please up our level of discussion.
@@danijelsan81I think criticizing someone for liking something is the issue here. This may sound crazy, but what if the release is, oh I don’t know, actually good? Being a contrarian just to be one is the issue with him IMO.
@@danijelsan81I’m not sure how the level of discussion is adrift, in pointing out that I find his approach to be selective and contrarian while also noting that I find him to be very smart about audio can’t get much more fair. His track record speaks for itself and frankly he won’t give a rip about me because I’m not his target market and that’s okay.
Toni Basil is in the Monkees Head film also.
Why do you guys keep pining away for yet another release of Black Sabbath? The 2010 Rhino release is still cheap and fantastic.
I'm just hoping it's cut for the HI Fi series.
I’ve owned two, and they both had glaring pressing defects.
They are not cheap anymore.
6:30 *Kurt Vonnegut!* That's it, that's the highlight right there.
lol.
You guys with preamps that trail clouds of glory have better sound with regular lps than guys with a whole collection of audiophile pressings. Or you guys with vintage Oracle Delphi turntables with the Triplanar tonearms. Great sounding lps if you can afford them though.
Steve, I’ll defend you on Rattle N Hum, it wasn’t well received and George is right that it was jump the shark, but I loved it was the first CD I ever owned
One of my first cd's too. I really like Rattle N Hum.
@@stevewestman7774same, can’t turn on something so formative, and frankly with years behind it, it’s actually aged very well and is a great document of the arc from Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby.
Nothing against Josh but I don't give a darn about CDs. I just FF through his commentary.
Heh, same here... But hey, I GUESS there are some here who appreciate it. But yeah, basically the exact same sentiments here 😁
Can we have a ban on Steve mentioning Black Sabbath? Please!!!!
I can consider it. :)
@@stevewestman7774 Uh huh... 😀
Steve, please enough already with analog and mastering engineers. So many of us don’t want to hear about it every single time. As maz would say it’s about the music not who mastered it..